Whoopi: Patrick "Fought Like the Dickens" to Survive

On Tuesday's The View, Whoopi Goldberg — Patrick Sawyze's close pal and costar in the 1990 romance classic Ghost — got choked up remembering the late actor.

"This was a well fought battle," she said of the actor, who died Monday at age 57 after a 20-month battle with pancreatic cancer. "Patrick fought like the Dickens to survive it - or to get through it. He never thought of himself as someone who was dying."

"His attitude was, 'Until it kills me I am going to keep doing what I am doing,'" she added. "He worked until the last minute ... He just was a cat that never gave up."